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OTTAWA — Canada broke international rules when it dumped more than 100 shipping containers of garbage disguised as plastics for recycling into the Philippines six years ago, a Victoria-based environmental law firm says.

WINNIPEG — The best friend of a Manitoba Indigenous woman killed during a botched robbery looked at a man convicted in her death and asked how a life could be worth that little to him.

OTTAWA — Lawyers for Vice-Admiral Mark Norman and the federal government argued Wednesday over the words of Canada's top bureaucrat during the SNC-Lavalin affair as the suspended military officer's team pressed for access to secret government emails

OTTAWA — Jason Kenney's newly secured perch as premier of Alberta poses both a threat and a potential boon to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's re-election chances this fall, political observers said Wednesday in the wake of the United Conservative Par

OTTAWA — The assault trial of former Afghanistan hostage Joshua Boyle faces a possible delay of several months due to legal wrangling over allowable evidence.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A look at Alison Coffin, leader of Newfoundland and Labrador's New Democratic Party: Age: 49 Early years: Coffin was born in Corner Brook on Newfoundland's west coast and grew up in Joe Batt's Arm.

OTTAWA — Canada and the European Union vowed on Wednesday to protect their businesses from the Trump administration's new policy to allow lawsuits against foreign companies connected to properties seized from American firms during the Cuban revolutio

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A look at Ches Crosbie, leader of the Newfoundland and Labrador Progressive Conservatives: Age: 65. Early years: Born in and raised in St. John's, N.L., Crosbie comes from a political household.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — A look at Dwight Ball, Liberal premier of Newfoundland and Labrador: Age: 62 Early years: Grew up in Deer Lake, a small town in western Newfoundland where his father worked in the forestry industry.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Premier Dwight Ball has called an early election in Newfoundland and Labrador for May 16, in what's shaping up as a close race between the ruling Liberals and opposition Tories.